Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jettie. I know he Armstrong and Yetty I'm
Speaker 2: going to be on a couch for at least one
Speaker 2: of those NFL games, or at least paying attention to
Speaker 2: them person the modern era where you can dial it
Speaker 2: up on your phone anywhere you are and check in
Speaker 2: on and that's something I would love that when I
Speaker 2: was a kid.
Speaker 1: You gotta have the big screen though, the big screen experience,
Speaker 1: the behemoths crashing into each other, life size in your home.
Speaker 2: I have lost the ability to like sit on a
Speaker 2: couch and watch a TV show. It just feels so
Speaker 2: incredibly self indulgent to me. I just can't do it,
Speaker 2: mostly because I have so many things I need to
Speaker 2: be doing. I haven't done it in years really, unless
Speaker 2: it's with the kids, because this is something I'm doing
Speaker 2: for the kids. I just never ever sit down and
Speaker 2: watch a TV show or game or anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are downsides to the empty nest thing, but
Speaker 1: there are also upsides.
Speaker 2: I was thinking of this yesterday when I was running
Speaker 2: myself freaking ragged and and my one son, just constantly
Speaker 2: needing something I thought. I always tell myself, you're gonna
Speaker 2: miss this more than anything in the world someday. But
Speaker 2: it's killing me today. It's freaking killing me. Also, correct
Speaker 2: so much to squeeze in this hour. It's the last
Speaker 2: hour of the week.
Speaker 1: We've got some more information on the Supreme Court unanimous
Speaker 1: upholding of the not TikTok ban, the ban on the
Speaker 1: communist Chinese controlling TikTok unanimous decision and a good one
Speaker 1: that much much more. But first, let's take a fond
Speaker 1: look back the week that was.
Speaker 2: It's cow clips of the week, and so we all
Speaker 2: better off that we're working together.
Speaker 3: Give me a joke, which is the weak And we
Speaker 3: have a ruling from the US Supreme Court on the
Speaker 3: popular app known as TikTok.
Speaker 2: Bitedance is a foreign entity. It does not have First
Speaker 2: Amendment writing. But there are serious national security risks here.
Speaker 4: Now I don't fully understand Chinese culture.
Speaker 5: At all, Like, what do you mean in other countries
Speaker 5: they don't have to spend twenty percent of their paycheck
Speaker 5: on groceries.
Speaker 3: Oligarch is taking shape in America of extreme wealth power
Speaker 3: and influence that.
Speaker 2: Literally threads our entire democracy. They push us super hard
Speaker 2: to take down things that we're honestly, we're true. Former
Speaker 2: Fox News anchor Pete hagsays in the hot seat, I
Speaker 2: don't want women. I don't want moms. What's wrong with
Speaker 2: a mom? By the way, you know.
Speaker 6: What that sounds to me that you will apply with
Speaker 6: such an order you will shoot protesters in the in
Speaker 6: the leg.
Speaker 2: Senator, I was falsely charged. I'm fully investigated and completely cleared.
Speaker 7: How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?
Speaker 7: Have any of you guys asked him to step down
Speaker 7: and resign for their job.
Speaker 3: It's time to give someone with dust on his boots
Speaker 3: the helm.
Speaker 7: As I get bilingual protester, I think is an injury?
Speaker 8: Cool?
Speaker 2: What will be worried about? Please question? Sure you're right
Speaker 2: now and listen I watch I have call me a child.
Speaker 7: I am a ceasefire deal between Israel and Tomas.
Speaker 2: Thank you Boks credit for this. Mister President, you or try.
Speaker 6: Joe security as you may carried out by alcasombriad or
Speaker 6: made a source of pride for our people and our resistance.
Speaker 6: What that will be passed down from generation to generation
Speaker 6: after it struck a fatal blow to the end of
Speaker 6: Mother Nature owned us.
Speaker 2: It was like a hurricane. It just was shooting like
Speaker 2: a blowtorch, like a blow towards.
Speaker 8: We are screaming to be properly funded to make sure
Speaker 8: that our firefighters can do their jobs.
Speaker 2: Did they fail you? Yes? Looking back, would you have
Speaker 2: taken that series? You know? I am going to focus today,
Speaker 2: but on what we know? Does the buck stop with you?
Speaker 3: I mean, you're governor of California, Advidy will be the
Speaker 3: mayor of California.
Speaker 2: We're all better off, we're all better off. We're all
Speaker 2: better off, and we're working together. This is what you're
Speaker 2: voted for. And if that surprises you, you weren't paying
Speaker 2: any attention. Him climbing my time. You want to take
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 1: Side committee, Yes, you want to take it outside, Go
Speaker 1: get it, Nancy, get it.
Speaker 2: I still contend the biggest story in America is Zuckerberg
Speaker 2: saying a week ago the White House was threatening a
Speaker 2: private business to not report true things. Right? How that
Speaker 2: is exploded into a bigger story. Who was the law
Speaker 2: professor I quoted the other day? It's got a book
Speaker 2: out currently, Ilia Shapiro. No guy who wrote the book.
Speaker 2: How about originalism that's out now, it doesn't matter. He's
Speaker 2: all right, law professor. And he said this should should
Speaker 2: this should be going to the Supreme Court. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is that big a thing. I agree completely. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've been howling that for some time. I think it's
Speaker 2: I think it is.
Speaker 1: Everybody says everything's outrageous these days, it's actually outrageous.
Speaker 2: Randy Barnett is the name we're looking for. It's horrific.
Speaker 2: And let me quote.
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg a little bit more because I happen to have
Speaker 1: the transcript in front of me.
Speaker 2: They pushed us.
Speaker 1: It's super hard to take down things that were honestly
Speaker 1: were true. They basically pushed us and said anything that
Speaker 1: says vaccines might have side effects you basically need to
Speaker 1: take down. And I was just like, well, we're not
Speaker 1: going to do that. We're clearly not going to do that.
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan asked him, who is they, Zuckerberg, it was
Speaker 1: people in the Biden administration. These people from the Biden
Speaker 1: administration would call up our team and like scream at
Speaker 1: them and curse Biden. He gave some statement at some point.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a press conference or
Speaker 1: to some journalists where he was basically like, these guys
Speaker 1: are killing people, and I don't know. Then like all
Speaker 1: these different agencies and branches the government basically just like
Speaker 1: started investigating and coming after our company.
Speaker 2: It was brutal.
Speaker 1: So the full complex pack of attack dogs of the
Speaker 1: federal government was unleashed to punish them for not immediately complying.
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg could have said so out loud at the time,
Speaker 1: and that would have been an incredibly brave and patriotic
Speaker 1: thing to do.
Speaker 2: He did not.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe someday he'll talk about why he decided
Speaker 1: not to. But I'm glad at least he's he's saying
Speaker 1: it now.
Speaker 2: And you got Joe Biden leave an office, given speech
Speaker 2: after speech about, you know, restoring norms and guard rails
Speaker 2: and worry about democracy. Your White House was threatening free
Speaker 2: speech during one of the biggest crisises we've ever had
Speaker 2: in America. Yeah, so nice.
Speaker 1: And if you don't mind a bit of a humorous
Speaker 1: note from the brilliant Nelly Bowls talking about Zuck confirming
Speaker 1: that everything we believed was happening actually was, she sees, says,
Speaker 1: and Zuck's centrist rampage isn't done. He's dismantled the internal
Speaker 1: racial quota system of diversity goals. He's removed the tampons
Speaker 1: from the men's bathrooms. Seriously, that is a real thing
Speaker 1: they did this week, timed for the day before his
Speaker 1: appearance on Rogan. Some daily wire pilled project manager has
Speaker 1: been unleashed in that office, and I'm honestly scared.
Speaker 2: They must be stopped soon. Unmarried thirty five.
Speaker 1: Year old women on Facebook will get a by a
Speaker 1: logical clock added to their page soon.
Speaker 2: When a man.
Speaker 1: Posts something emotional to Facebook, he'll get an auto alert
Speaker 1: asking if he really wants to be that gay? That's
Speaker 1: really funny. Nelly Bowls might be the funniest woman in America.
Speaker 1: Good news writer too so. Joe Biden's heading out of office.
Speaker 1: He ends he's done at noon on Monday. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: the day to talk about this. But two examples I've
Speaker 1: got right here. I was listened to NPR yesterday. They
Speaker 1: had on a reporter to kind of do a wrap
Speaker 1: up of the Biden presidency and his career in politics,
Speaker 1: since it was the morning after his big farewell speech, and.
Speaker 2: The end it was n P freaking r barely throwing
Speaker 2: in a positive thing here and there. I mean, just
Speaker 2: really going out of their way to have a couple
Speaker 2: of tiny nice things to say, even they were burying him,
Speaker 2: just disaster after disaster. This was a mistake, This was selfish,
Speaker 2: This was a bad idea. This didn't work out on NPR.
Speaker 2: I thought, Yeah, so what I've been saying is Joe
Speaker 2: Biden is the least popular president, just aside from Nixon
Speaker 2: and just barely above Nixon.
Speaker 1: And many many points below the next person up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's gonna go down from here, I think.
Speaker 2: I mean when you've got NPR seeing these things, and
Speaker 2: I gotten from my hand USA today. So they've got
Speaker 2: their big, giant, full page picture of Biden looking thoughtful
Speaker 2: in the desk in the Oval office. This is their
Speaker 2: farewell article to Joe Biden. Biden's refusal to pass Torch
Speaker 2: earlier hangs over presidential legacy. Their headline for the whole article,
Speaker 2: they go with a negative, selfish, bad decision. So I
Speaker 2: think when the liberal outlets are doing this, he's gonna
Speaker 2: go where nowhere but down throughout history. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think when the full detail emerges of his senility
Speaker 1: and everyone's awareness of it and the measures that were
Speaker 1: taken to cover for it. When we all fully reckon
Speaker 1: with that, that's gonna eclipse anything else. Sure, it's one
Speaker 1: of the most extraordinary political stories in American history.
Speaker 2: God, even on even on NPR yesterday they were talking
Speaker 2: about and then you had the Inflation Reduction Act, a
Speaker 2: misnamed bill that was really didn't have anything to do
Speaker 2: about inflation. And it's just nice for that timely coverage.
Speaker 2: Put I mean, when they're saying that about you on
Speaker 2: the way out the door as a Democrat, you're a
Speaker 2: You're in trouble, right it is.
Speaker 1: It is going to be one of the biggest political
Speaker 1: stories in American history. It could only be eclipsed if
Speaker 1: it emerged that George Washington was actually two little people,
Speaker 1: one standing on the other shoulders, wearing the famous long
Speaker 1: blue coat.
Speaker 2: Wearing a grown up suit. Exactly. I've got a little
Speaker 2: more from today's New York Times article to what Joe
Speaker 2: just said. As the people are starting to say things
Speaker 2: they hadn't said before, a couple of more nuggets out
Speaker 2: all went down when you got pushed out office. We
Speaker 2: got a lot of other stuff too. Hope you can
Speaker 2: stick around. So it wasn't Nancy Pelosi that pushed byden
Speaker 2: now at least not exclusively. It looks like Chuck Schumer
Speaker 2: played a very big role, according to The New York
Speaker 2: Times Today and some behind the scenes gossip that's pretty juicy.
Speaker 2: We'll get to some more of that coming up next segment.
Speaker 1: Indeed, so the Supreme Court has unanimously real the rule
Speaker 1: that Congress is within its rights to ban the communist
Speaker 1: Chinese ownership of TikTok. They're not banning TikTok, they're banning
Speaker 1: the ownership by the communist Chinese. We have some really
Speaker 1: important analysis of this case and what it means and
Speaker 1: why it's right.
Speaker 2: But it's Friday. Let's make time.
Speaker 1: For little mirth. Here are a couple of idiots. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry that was prejudicial.
Speaker 2: Here's I apologize.
Speaker 1: Here's a couple of stinking morons talking about downloading Red Note,
Speaker 1: which they did despite the American government or something. And
Speaker 1: it's a Chinese social media app. Michael twenty five, idiot
Speaker 1: number one place.
Speaker 4: So I downloaded Red Note, and I am no longer
Speaker 4: convinced that we are living in a first world country.
Speaker 4: Seeing the everyday lives of Chinese people, like obviously certain
Speaker 4: Chinese people are not saying everybody's lives, but it's just
Speaker 4: like insanely eye opening. There's something really remarkable that I
Speaker 4: have noticed about most of these Chinese people, even older people,
Speaker 4: like people in their forty fifty sixties, they look so
Speaker 4: much less traumatized than most Americans.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: I don't fully understand Chinese culture at all, and I'm
Speaker 4: sure it varies a lot. It's a very very vague place,
Speaker 4: but it's interesting seeing how lighthearted and kind and gentle
Speaker 4: these people are, especially in comparison to Americans.
Speaker 2: What was your favorite phrase you liked? It's brilliant.
Speaker 1: I don't fully understand Chinese culture at all.
Speaker 4: I don't understand Chinese culture at all.
Speaker 1: That is such a funny thing to say. I don't
Speaker 1: fully understand quantum mechanics at all. Oh boy, what a
Speaker 1: soft head, well spoken, probably would be called intelligent, intelligent
Speaker 1: by people who came into contact with her.
Speaker 2: Almost certainly a straight high school kid, so has that sound?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but obviously a moron with not a look of
Speaker 1: perspective or or or wisdom. Do we have another Maybe
Speaker 1: we can have a battle of the morons. Will declare
Speaker 1: the Queen of the Morons.
Speaker 5: After this tape, Like, what do you mean in other
Speaker 5: countries they don't have to spend twenty percent of their
Speaker 5: paycheck on groceries.
Speaker 2: What do you mean in.
Speaker 5: Other countries everyone can own homes because they're not paying
Speaker 5: two thousand dollars a month in rent, or that their
Speaker 5: mortgages aren't like their entire paycheck.
Speaker 2: What do you mean.
Speaker 5: The people in China work one job and they don't
Speaker 5: even work forty hours and they can easily afford their life.
Speaker 5: And then I'm over here, working sixty hours a week
Speaker 5: just meet as a single parent to like barely make
Speaker 5: ends meet, and I'm penny pinching every single second, and like,
Speaker 5: there's so much a life that my kidness is out
Speaker 5: on and that I miss out on because of money
Speaker 5: and like work and no social support net.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, if only you lived in China, she reproduced. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's unfortunate to hear. There's no intelligence requirement. Yes, Katie,
Speaker 1: I have to say I.
Speaker 8: Have never had snot streaming out of my nose holes,
Speaker 8: bawling my eyes out in thought.
Speaker 2: I need my phone.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna video this and I'm gonna share it with
Speaker 8: the planet.
Speaker 1: I have my nose holes yes, it's not streaming out
Speaker 1: of your nose holes.
Speaker 2: It's a bad look. I've noticed there's two kinds of
Speaker 2: videos that kind of person puts out. There's a sitting
Speaker 2: in your car, which we've seen a lot, and then
Speaker 2: there's the walking. I have brilliant thoughts that America needs
Speaker 2: to hear that could change the world. But I can't stop,
Speaker 2: like walking to the laundry room or whatever I've gotta
Speaker 2: do while I'm doing this video. I don't know why
Speaker 2: they think that adds more emphasis to it or something
Speaker 2: that they I'm in the middle of something, but I've
Speaker 2: got this very complex thought to get out. I think,
Speaker 2: what is that?
Speaker 8: That's a personality thing? Like my husband cannot stand still
Speaker 8: when he talks on the phone. That guy gets his
Speaker 8: ten thousand steps in one phone call, just going from
Speaker 8: room to room. Maybe that's what it is if he
Speaker 8: answers the I hate to ruin the fun, but that's
Speaker 8: what I do. It's why I get invited to so
Speaker 8: few parties. Michael, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Peter Schweitzer wrote an absolutely brilliant, brilliant piece entitled why
Speaker 1: Beijing wants Americans to keep using TikTok, and those two
Speaker 1: gals are absolutely the manifestation of what he was talking
Speaker 1: about and writing about. We went in depth into this
Speaker 1: during hour two. The main takeaway, and maybe we can
Speaker 1: squeeze in a little more before the end of the show,
Speaker 1: is what Schweitzer does is delve into and he spent
Speaker 1: a long time researching this, all sorts of available through
Speaker 1: various means, memorandums from the Chinese military, from their universities
Speaker 1: which are closely tied to the military, from their propagandists,
Speaker 1: all talking about how incredibly useful TikTok is because it's
Speaker 1: such a direct pipeline to young Americans and they can
Speaker 1: take their time and subtly change their perception of their
Speaker 1: own country. They don't have to be overt about it
Speaker 1: because they have the kid's attention so much. They their
Speaker 1: internal documents say this is an incredible propaganda tool, extremely useful,
Speaker 1: and we need to use it.
Speaker 2: A couple more details from the New York Times article
Speaker 2: today the last days of Joe Biden's candidacy and It's
Speaker 2: pretty juicy gossip, among other things. On the ways stay here,
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: A new study says that paper straws aren't as eco
Speaker 7: friendly as you think, but hey, at least they don't
Speaker 7: work and make everything taste like paper. Researchers analyze dozens
Speaker 7: of different brands of paper straws and found that they
Speaker 7: contain forever chemicals, which are chemicals named after how long
Speaker 7: it takes to drink a milkshake through a paper straw.
Speaker 2: And of course for the eight millions time telling you
Speaker 2: that the impetus for the whole plastic straw band was
Speaker 2: based on a nine year old's paper he wrote for
Speaker 2: fourth grade or whatever. It was completely made up number
Speaker 2: about how many straws views and everybody reacted to it.
Speaker 2: It's hilarious really in a way, it is, and yet troubling,
Speaker 2: I'd say so. I think there's a reason The New
Speaker 2: York Times has an article out today about how Joe
Speaker 2: Biden got pushed out the door. One is, he's almost
Speaker 2: out of office and people are ready to start speaking.
Speaker 2: And Mark Halprin's podcast yesterday they did a lot of
Speaker 2: time discussing who's going to be the first to sign
Speaker 2: a multi million dollar deal to put out a book.
Speaker 2: Is it a come from Kamala Harris's orbit or from
Speaker 2: whatever orbit pushed Joe Biden out or whatever that starts
Speaker 2: telling the stories because there's a hunger for it out there.
Speaker 1: The deal's been signed, the fine Prince said announce after inauguration.
Speaker 2: And then there's also the I think Nancy Pelosi doesn't
Speaker 2: necessarily like being seen as the wicked witch of the
Speaker 2: West who pushed him out. I don't know. Or maybe
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer's mad that she's getting credit for it and
Speaker 2: he wants credit for it. I don't know which. But
Speaker 2: for instance, this week, Jill Biden she did an interview
Speaker 2: with The Washington Post and talked about her disappointment with
Speaker 2: Nancy Pelosi's role and pushing her husband to drop out.
Speaker 2: Like I said, Jill says, now seated in the green
Speaker 2: room of the White House, I've been thinking a lot
Speaker 2: about personal relationships. It's been on my mind a lot lately.
Speaker 2: We were friends for fifty years. It was disappointing. Well,
Speaker 2: and then disappointing is pretending your husband isn't senile. So
Speaker 2: then four days later in the New York Times there's
Speaker 2: a big article about how Chuck Schumer pushed Biden out.
Speaker 2: Nancy Pelosi's name is not even in this long article anywhere.
Speaker 2: I just find that interesting.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, yeah, behind the scenes leaking and maneuvering. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: But back to the long article, which we got into earlier,
Speaker 2: and it's really worth a read if you're into this
Speaker 2: stuff at all. This is post debate. All the Democrats
Speaker 2: are in a frenzy, knowing that they're doomed if they
Speaker 2: don't figure out a way to get Joe Biden out
Speaker 2: of office. As the days ticked by after the debate,
Speaker 2: Barack Obama worried that Democrats were doing nothing. He told
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer that he himself had a fragile relationship with
Speaker 2: the former Vice president, who still carried a chip on
Speaker 2: his shoulder over Obama's decision to support Hillary Clinton in
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, having urged Joe not to run back then,
Speaker 2: mister Obama told Schumer he wasn't sure he was the
Speaker 2: best message to tell Biden to step aside, you may
Speaker 2: be a better one. That alone is new reporting. I mean,
Speaker 2: there have been all kinds of stuff of that you
Speaker 2: hear people talking about on Fox or whatever. But I
Speaker 2: don't think The New York Times has ever written about
Speaker 2: Obama and Biden having such a frosty relationship. Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 1: Yet another example of everything we thought was true just
Speaker 1: confirms everything that seemed to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, still, says The New York Times. Schumer hesitated, then
Speaker 2: Joe Biden dug in. On July eighth, as members of
Speaker 2: Congress returned to Washington after their Independence Day break, they
Speaker 2: received a defiant letter from the President saying he was
Speaker 2: staying in the race and expected them to fall in
Speaker 2: line with his decision. The question of how to move
Speaker 2: forward has been well aired for over a week now,
Speaker 2: and it's time for it to end. You remember that
Speaker 2: we're back from vacation talking about it. Democrats on Capitol
Speaker 2: Hill seethed in a closed door lunch the next day.
Speaker 2: Senators said the president was being selfish. They questioned whether
Speaker 2: he had even written the letter himself, or whether his
Speaker 2: aides may have or his son had written for him.
Speaker 2: So not only are they angry, they don't even think
Speaker 2: he wrote it. On the phone. The next day, Schumer
Speaker 2: told top advisor to Joe Biden, mister Roschetti, that he
Speaker 2: needed to send the top White House and campaign advisors
Speaker 2: to address Democratic Congress. He said he threatened Joe Biden's
Speaker 2: advisor with if you don't send some people from the
Speaker 2: White House over here. I can't hold my senators anymore
Speaker 2: from coming out and flat out calling the president to
Speaker 2: get out of the race. If we don't have this meeting,
Speaker 2: I cannot hold my members back anymore. Schumer said, you're
Speaker 2: going to get half my caucus to sign a letter
Speaker 2: saying he should step down, so the White House sends
Speaker 2: some people over there. The July eleventh meeting was grim.
Speaker 2: Democratic senators, even normally reserved ones who were close with
Speaker 2: mister Biden, erupted. The usually quiet Senator Jack Read of
Speaker 2: Rhode Island, a West Point graduate and former paratrooper, said
Speaker 2: he could no longer support his commander in chief unless
Speaker 2: mister Biden could produce two neurologists to issue a public
Speaker 2: report saying he was fit to serve, and then hold
Speaker 2: a news conference where anyone could ask questions. Obviously pretty
Speaker 2: fair standard, it is fair, But obviously that was never
Speaker 2: gonna happen. Senator Sheldon white House of Rhode Island told
Speaker 2: mister Biden's aids that the silence from the majority of
Speaker 2: Democratics senators should not be interpreted as a sign of support.
Speaker 2: It was out of respect and affection to allow Biden
Speaker 2: time to gracefully exit but it would not last forever,
Speaker 2: he said, because if they continued to vouch for his fitness,
Speaker 2: they would be lying. And even politicians apparently have a
Speaker 2: limit to how much they want to lie to the
Speaker 2: TV cameras a mod that.
Speaker 1: We have, as senator named white House, isn't it, I thought,
Speaker 1: I thought this was an interesting little nugget.
Speaker 2: It's not important, but I thought it was interesting. Among
Speaker 2: the only people in the room who spoke up to
Speaker 2: defend Joe Biden was Senator John Fetterman, a first term
Speaker 2: Democrat from Pennsylvania. We got to be for Joe Biden,
Speaker 2: he said, addressing his colleagues, You have no spine. After
Speaker 2: the meeting, mister Schumer pulled Fetterman aside for a rare scolding.
Speaker 2: You can always express what you think in our caucus,
Speaker 2: but you don't ever tell our members they have no spine.
Speaker 2: It's not effective for you and not fair to them.
Speaker 2: I just thought that was interesting from a protocol standpoint. Yeah, agreed.
Speaker 1: I'm a little surprised, since Fetterman has emerged as one
Speaker 1: of the most common sensical, plane speaking people in d C.
Speaker 2: Well, he was wrong about that one. Yeah. The Biden
Speaker 2: palace guard left that day by that that's the New
Speaker 2: York Times writing. But biden palace guard left that day
Speaker 2: seemingly cowed by what it had heard, but the President
Speaker 2: remained publicly and privately dug In the next day, in
Speaker 2: a more than hour long one on one meeting with
Speaker 2: the President, mister Jeffries laid out similarlyly grave concerns among
Speaker 2: House Democrats. He said it would be irretrievable. We would
Speaker 2: lose if he continued. Late the next afternoon, Schumer joined
Speaker 2: Biden on the screened in porch, which we talked about
Speaker 2: a couple of hours ago, for the UH to deliver
Speaker 2: his own blunt message. I thought this was really interesting.
Speaker 2: Schumer gave a detailed blow by blow of what each
Speaker 2: Democratic senator had told mister Biden's top aides on Capitol
Speaker 2: Hill two days earlier, earlier, leaving the President wide eyed
Speaker 2: and leading Schumer to conclude that his aides had not
Speaker 2: briefed him on what had transpired.
Speaker 1: That fits the freaking believe that siting the polls, etc.
Speaker 2: His top advisor, chief of staff go to meet with
Speaker 2: all the Democrat Democrat senators. They're screaming, he's got to
Speaker 2: sit down, and we're not going to keep our mouth
Speaker 2: shut anymore. And they don't go back and tell their friend, boss,
Speaker 2: colleague what happened. They just keep it a secret from him.
Speaker 2: How the meeting go?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: What great? It was good. Everybody says, hello, wow, how
Speaker 2: the freak did you think this was going to play out? Geniuses?
Speaker 1: I have throughout my adult life observing politics. Stop the
Speaker 1: whole Cheney's a puppetmaster. He's pulling the strings and all
Speaker 1: of those, you know, because every administration gets it. I
Speaker 1: am shocked that it was that literally true. Biden would
Speaker 1: send his top advisors over to the Senate. They would
Speaker 1: have the meetings and come back and say, went, great, great,
Speaker 1: we had ham sandwiches.
Speaker 2: Anyway, how are you that's scary. It is scary. You
Speaker 2: combine that with the Polsters, which are about to get
Speaker 2: into a little bit more here. If there's a secret ballot,
Speaker 2: mister President, my guess is that you might at most
Speaker 2: get five yeses of senators that want him to stick
Speaker 2: it out, five out of fifty two. Really, mister Biden responded,
Speaker 2: I know my caucus. You know, I know my caucus.
Speaker 2: Mister Biden nodded. Then Schumer delivered the speech he had
Speaker 2: been rehearsing. Some people go into politics for money and power,
Speaker 2: but some do it to leave a legacy. You're certainly
Speaker 2: one of those. And he ticked through the impressive This
Speaker 2: is good strategy for a salesmanship, because he's trying to
Speaker 2: sell Biden on the idea of stepping down, and he
Speaker 2: knows he's got to play to his ego. He ticked
Speaker 2: through the impressive list of policies and acted together, including
Speaker 2: the assault weapons ban and other gun controlled measures, the
Speaker 2: Violence Against Women Act, and mister Biden's ambitious domestic agenda.
Speaker 2: If I had to leave politics tomorrow for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: I would say to myself, all this s we take
Speaker 2: in this job is worth it, for making the world
Speaker 2: a better place, and your legacy twenty times mine. Then,
Speaker 2: as the President listened silently, I mean, mister Schumer told
Speaker 2: him he risked going down in history as one of
Speaker 2: the darkest figures. That's a hell of a thing to say.
Speaker 2: Not a dark figure like negatively seen, but one of
Speaker 2: the darkest figures in presidential history. Is the act of
Speaker 2: a thing to say.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Schumer said that if he had even a fifty percent
Speaker 2: chance of winning, he'd probably keep going fifty to fifty,
Speaker 2: it'd be worth it. But mister President, you're not getting
Speaker 2: the information as to what the chances are. When he
Speaker 2: asked whether mister Biden had talked to his polsters about
Speaker 2: his chance of winning the race, the President shook his head. Well,
Speaker 2: I've talked to him, Schumer said, My guess is you
Speaker 2: have about a five percent chance. And none of your
Speaker 2: polsters disagree with me. They didn't tell Biden he has
Speaker 2: a five percent chance. He wasn't talking to them at all,
Speaker 2: apparently only twice. To go ahead, I was just gonna
Speaker 2: say he was so.
Speaker 1: Clearly the Meal take it right for his staff, for
Speaker 1: his advisers.
Speaker 2: Same as he's been for his family. So he's got
Speaker 2: the politicians who, for political reasons keeping him in the dark,
Speaker 2: just need him to be there. And then he's got
Speaker 2: Jill and Hunter and his brother who are of course
Speaker 2: going to tell him to stick around because he's a
Speaker 2: different version of a Meal ticket, right, and that something.
Speaker 2: Only twice did Biden interrupt to ask a question, and
Speaker 2: both times it was do you really think Kamala can win?
Speaker 2: He interrupted Schumer twice in an hour, and both times
Speaker 2: he said, do you really think Kamala can win. Schumer
Speaker 2: said he didn't know.
Speaker 1: Joe answers no, no, no, no, she can't.
Speaker 2: Schumer said he didn't know, but she had a far
Speaker 2: better chance than Biden did. That's true, That is true. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Biden has since made it clear that he thinks he
Speaker 2: would have won. That's what the New York Times says here,
Speaker 2: which is true. H Upholster came out since Friday and
Speaker 2: said the President was fully briefed on his campaign polling
Speaker 2: and fully briefed him. Okay, either he was. Either he
Speaker 2: was or wasn't. I think he probably wasn't. At the time,
Speaker 2: mister Biden revealed a little of his own thinking, but
Speaker 2: he did not argue with Schumer, and he did not shout.
Speaker 2: He just said, I need a week. So he must
Speaker 2: have at that point decided, well when fund somebody finally
Speaker 2: told him the truth. If they had told him the
Speaker 2: truth earlier, he might have He might have gotten out
Speaker 2: a year earlier if people have been honest with him.
Speaker 1: Certainly, Dough everybody's still claiming, oh, he's absolutely I can
Speaker 1: barely keep up with.
Speaker 2: Him behind the scenes. That was that time, and it's
Speaker 2: known that he watches Morning Joe. He could flip on
Speaker 2: the morning cable news while he's doing his jazzer size
Speaker 2: or whatever, and see Joe Scarborough saying he's the best
Speaker 2: Joe Biden I've ever seen. So, of course he was
Speaker 2: thinking that I need a week. As he ushered Schumer
Speaker 2: into a small elevator to exit the House, the President
Speaker 2: put two hands on the senator's shoulders and offered a
Speaker 2: quintessential Biden Esque bit of hyperbole. You've got bigger balls
Speaker 2: than anyone I've ever met, he said. The two embraced
Speaker 2: as Schumer headed back to his car, where he broke
Speaker 2: down in tears as he recounted the meeting to his aides.
Speaker 2: He didn't know what mister Biden would end up doing,
Speaker 2: he told him, but he felt he had gotten through
Speaker 2: to him. Yeah. Wow, So really seems like the narrative
Speaker 2: that Nancy pushed him out is unless there's new reporting
Speaker 2: to come. Maybe she was doing something similar also in
Speaker 2: the House.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are surely to be counter leaks any minute now.
Speaker 1: But all of that rings very, very true, including and
Speaker 1: I've never been terribly sympathetic for Chuck Schumer in any way,
Speaker 1: because I think he's a cad and a liar and
Speaker 1: a propagandist and a progressive nut. But that would be
Speaker 1: a heavy conversation to have with an old friend slash associate,
Speaker 1: because the underlying theme is you're too old and.
Speaker 2: Your brain doesn't work. That's why, right, somebody putting it
Speaker 2: out the other day, Remember when Nancy Pelosi would do so,
Speaker 2: Joe Biden would go, would come out and say, I'm
Speaker 2: staying in the so and anybody thinks I'm not as crazy,
Speaker 2: And then Nancy Pelosi'd be asking, we're still waiting for
Speaker 2: him to make up his mind, and we're gonna give
Speaker 2: him time to think about it.
Speaker 1: We will go with whatever the president decides. I've decided
Speaker 1: I'm staying in, and when he makes the decision, we
Speaker 1: will abide by it. I'm in, I'm running. The president
Speaker 1: gets to decide.
Speaker 2: But we're in the very early part of the writing
Speaker 2: of all this history. It needs to change over time, though.
Speaker 2: USA Today's headline today in the retrospective of the Biden presidency,
Speaker 2: Biden's refusal to pass Torch earlier hangs over his legacy.
Speaker 2: You gotta be knocking his aids. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you can blame the guy if he wasn't getting the
Speaker 2: true information right, especially when he's senile. Anyway, we will
Speaker 2: finish strong next. First of all, if I'm Joe Biden,
Speaker 2: while I'm still president, I'm gonna have those people executed
Speaker 2: for treason who didn't tell me the truth about what
Speaker 2: was going on or something controversial or something. LEAs and
Speaker 2: Colein and said, what the hell? You went to meet
Speaker 2: with the senators and they said, unless he gets two
Speaker 2: neurologists to say he's okay and answers questions, we're coming
Speaker 2: out tomorrow and saying he needs to step down. And
Speaker 2: you didn't tell me that. You didn't think I would
Speaker 2: hear about that at some point.
Speaker 1: I think that's probably happened already before he headed off
Speaker 1: to the beach to wander off to die like an
Speaker 1: old elephant.
Speaker 2: Different story. NFL playoffs this weekend. I barely know this.
Speaker 2: Maybe Joe knows more about it. I know there was
Speaker 2: some dust up between Packers fans and Eagles fans at
Speaker 2: the playoff game last week. Got a fair amount of attention.
Speaker 2: Turns out, and I saw the headline, but I didn't
Speaker 2: read it. We got this tech text. Turns out that
Speaker 2: the Packers fan from that Eagles game where there was
Speaker 2: a fight as an Internet grifter who goes to games
Speaker 2: like this, buy seats in certain sections where the rowdiest
Speaker 2: home fans are, provokes them to get this exact response,
Speaker 2: and then post vot videos on YouTube and makes a
Speaker 2: big deal out of it and somehow benefits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're out of Eagles fan called her a dumb
Speaker 1: sea or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Is she.
Speaker 2: What the what?
Speaker 1: I would never use that sort of crude letter terminology.
Speaker 1: My thirteen year old still thinks the sea word is crap.
Speaker 2: So that's good. As long as I can keep that,
Speaker 2: it's fine. That good, Yes, Katie, I won't. I won't
Speaker 2: say she's a dumb sea.
Speaker 8: But the guy who called her that ended up losing
Speaker 8: his job. They sicked the internet all over this guy,
Speaker 8: and he's being publicly shamed everywhere.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it had an effect on him and it
Speaker 2: was just a YouTube Internet ruise. I go to places
Speaker 2: where I know this kind of fan is and try
Speaker 2: to provoke them. Wow. Still, you shouldn't call that woman
Speaker 2: that you did. It's very rude. I don't know. Hey, kids,
Speaker 2: it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty. You know,
Speaker 2: Joe Getty Bears fan. I think you're in the the
Speaker 2: really hardcore Bears section. You're drinking beer and there's somebody
Speaker 2: just getting in your face with their finger the whole game.
Speaker 2: I think you or I are capable of saying anything
Speaker 2: to that person. Well, first of all, Niners fans.
Speaker 1: Secondly, if I had a beer or two in this scenia,
Speaker 1: of course you had, Yeah, I would unleash something truly horrifying.
Speaker 1: Merchant Greens, combat veterans would, would would blink back tears.
Speaker 2: Here, Yes, here's your final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 1: to wrap things up for the week. Michelangelow, our technical director,
Speaker 1: will lead us. Michael final thought.
Speaker 2: Mark my words.
Speaker 3: At eleven forty five am on Monday, Biden will issue
Speaker 3: an executive order that changes the US to the metric system.
Speaker 2: Fifteen minutes before.
Speaker 1: Hilarious Katie Green are estemed to Newswoman as a final thought, Katie, well, with.
Speaker 8: The release of this New York Times article and all
Speaker 8: this other information coming out, I am loving the infighting.
Speaker 8: Oh Democrats, Oh yeah, that's good stuff.
Speaker 1: My final thought I'm gonna jump the gun is that
Speaker 1: I think all of this while great gossip also helps
Speaker 1: to illustrate for us how politics actually works.
Speaker 2: Yep, behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: It's not the speeches and the grand pronouncements and the
Speaker 1: rest of it. It's not even the laws. It's that
Speaker 1: sort of crap.
Speaker 2: Jack. Final thought, Yeah, my final thought was going to
Speaker 2: be that's why the founding fathers thought you needed to
Speaker 2: have government be as small as possible, because, as you
Speaker 2: can see in that article, even among Democrats, people look
Speaker 2: out for their own interest more than the country's interest,
Speaker 2: or even their parties or anything. That's just the way
Speaker 2: people are built. Power corrupts Man Armstrong and Getty wrapping
Speaker 2: up another grueling four hour workday, so many people.
Speaker 1: Thanks a little time. Go to Armstrong and Getty dot com.
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Speaker 1: Oh nice strop us an ode. If there's something we
Speaker 1: ought to be talking about you see over the weekend
Speaker 1: mail bag at Armstrong and Getdy dot com.
Speaker 2: Yep, Man will be a lot to talk about Martin
Speaker 2: Luther King a day on Monday, the inauguration, in all
Speaker 2: the football game See you then, God bless America. Armstrong
Speaker 2: and Getty and I said, boy, they look two people that.
Speaker 6: Like each other, and again, thank you so much for.
Speaker 2: Sharing that I can't imagine.
Speaker 4: I'm all beautiful fish.
Speaker 2: Why are you such a nerd?
Speaker 7: Bro't whatever you say and listen give me a joke.
Speaker 4: It's now I don't fully understand at all.
Speaker 2: Who're not?
Speaker 1: Have a great Friday, you, Mother, Armstrong and Gaddy